Praying Legally

· Brown Judaic Studies 364. књига · SBL Press
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Explore the lengthy history of legal metaphors in ancient prayer

In biblical and other ancient Near Eastern sources, prayer is an opportunity to make one’s case before divine judges. Prayers were formulated using courtroom or trial language, including demands for judgment, confessions, and accusations. The presence of these legal concepts reveals ancient Near Eastern thoughts about what takes place when one prays. Holtz highlights legal concepts that appear in prayers, including the motif of the speakers' oppression in Psalms the possibility of countersuit against God through prayer, and divine attention and inattention as legal responses. By reading ancient prayers together with legal texts, this book shows how speakers took advantage of prayer as an opportunity to have their day in the divine court and even sue against divine injustice.

Features

  • Identification of legal vocabulary and concepts that appear in ancient prayers
  • Analysis of legal metaphors in prayer examples in Akkadian and postbiblical rabbinic texts
  • Interpretations of trial records and texts from Psalms and Lamentations

O autoru

Shalom E. Holtz is Professor of Bible at Yeshiva University. He is the author of Neo-Babylonian Court Procedure (2009) and Neo-Babylonian Trial Records (2014).

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